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Top of the Range


Often seen as a traditional product, the range cooker has evolved to fulfil an important role in contemporary lifestyles


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The range cooker – once the preserve of farmhouse kitchens everywhere – can assume a role of the beating heart of the household, providing heat, hot water, and of course the ability to cook.


Aesthetically desirable for all kinds of kitchen styles, the first big question to be addressed when specifying this major appliance is the level of functionality required.


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The simplest system features a single burner that heats one or more ovens and a hotplate, while also providing warmth to the room in the manner of a giant storage heater. These models can have a back boiler that allows water to be heated, either for use in washing up or to channel into radiators. Some people think of this as free hot water, but the boiler will have to run at a higher temperature to provide this function, so will use more energy than if it were just


being used to cook and provide ambient heat. These models can take several hours to heat up sufficiently to cook with, so are usually left running all the time.


Andy McCulloch, director of Cast Iron Range Cookers specialist company selling nine different brands of range, points out, “With a single burner, found mainly in solid fuel ranges, you are heating the water all the time the cooker is going, whether you want it or not.


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